Can You Play Today?

Good morning God! Thank you for today! Thank you for yesterday! Thank you for answering all of my prayers and the ones unspoken - the desires requested in my heart that you also answered. Thank you for JOY this morning! Last night I rested. I let go and feel deep within your love, grace, and power and fell asleep. It was a feeling that I would be fine no matter what happened. The feeling reminded me of Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech when he said, "I am not afraid... I am not fearing any man."

 

For many of us there is a perpetual fear, a feeling that someone is always out to get you when you’re a person whose outward identity is negatively targeted by others. There’s a feeling of a dark cloud diminishing your family’s joy when a close family member is chronically abusive. There’s a feeling of perpetual loss, of seeking and wanting to be found, when you’re separated from your mother or father at a young age. And there’s a constant fear associated with hiding things that others may not like about us. 

 

It’s like we're all afraid of each other so much we’re going through the world backwards (as my father would say). Instead of living towards one another we are living away, backing up with all of our gifts, talents, and toys, when our truest desires are to run towards one another like little kids, shouting, “Can you play?” and laying out all of our toys to be shared, and to play with as many others as possible. “I want to run to you,” as Whitney Houston sang in one of her beautiful songs. So, let’s run towards each other and not run away. Let’s play together, today.